Lexicography

It was for the first time in the history of Russian bilingual lexicography that
vocabulary entries were arranged in alphabetic order, besides, it was made an
attempt to differentiate word meanings, there were labels indicating grammar
and word usage.
At the end of the 18 th century traditions of Russian lexicography resulted in the
Russian Academic dictionaries: the 1 st volume was published in 1789-1794; the
second one was published in 1806-1822.
Lexicographic work would continue attaining great development in Russia. As
to the 19 th century the following dictionaries which are by no means of great
importance should be mentioned:
1) Academic Russian and Church Slavonic Language Dictionary in 4 volumes
(1847);
2) The Old Russian Dictionary was compiled by I.I. Sreznevsky (1890 – 1912)
which was published postumously:
3) Dall’s V.I., Dictionary of the Great Russian Language was published in 1863
– 1866.
4) Academic Russian language Dictionary was compiled by I.K. Grott in 1895.
At the beginning of the 20 th century 8 dictionaries which are worth
considering should be mentioned:
1) “The Dictionary of Old Russian Proper Nouns” by N.M. Tupikov (1903).
2) The Etymological Russian Language Dictionary by A. Preobrazhensky (1910
– 1916), later The Dictionary of Russian Language Etymology by M. Fasmer
(1964).
3) As far as explanatory dictionaries are concerned it should be mentioned:
“Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” by D.N. Ushakov (1935 –
1940).
4) “Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language” by S.I. Ozhegov (1949),
which was many times revised and reprinted.
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